These were the lucky ones.

First, there were some Iraqis who actually were criminals outside of the Ba-athist party so they very well may have been guilty of this.

Second, I think capital punishment should be carried out the same way you killed your victim. So if you shot him in the stomach and it took 2 weeks to die, and that should be your fate. If you hacked someone up alive, then that should be your fate.

You would see that the number of deaths by gunfire would increase, not too many would stab or beat someone to death anymore.

I don't see the Iraqi punishment as gruesome, especially if the individuals did what they were convicted of. "Live by the sword, die by the sword."

As brutality goes for Saddam, this is rather mild. I'm more concerned about the aspects of how these people ended up at the end of a bomb execution.

Going by Saddam's usual methods. These guys were most likely just picked up on the street and selected to be "the criminals" with no defence rep or trial. I'm surprised there were blind folds.

I can't get too worked up over this either. But I also have little confidence that these guys were guilty.

I smell a turd.......Since when would Sodom give a poopoo if someone killed children???????? He would have been the first one executed.

These men were probably only guilty of 'not agreeing with Sodom'.

The three men were accused of placing a grenade in a packet of... that's right, baby milk. Does baby milk have some special significance in Iraq, because it appears to be rolled out by the regime, from time time, to add a particular heinousness to certain allegations.

Sounds like the arabs do things Different than
the west. Saudi's behead people and do they still
lop off the hands of a theif ? I heard they take
the hand that they Don't wipe themselves with.
Shaking with that hand is supposed to be a put
down.

Vf - Get to school. You're late.

Some of you liberal socialist, type with that same hand. I causes a lot of sh-- to get smeared on these posts.